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Pen Hadow Sets Off

Pen Hadow sets sail for North Pole as Arctic ice melts

British explorer Pen Hadow and his crew have set sail from Alaska, in an attempt to become the first people ever to sail to the North Pole.

With Arctic ice melting at an unprecedented rate, previously inaccessible waters are opening up, creating the potential for their planned 5,500 km (3,500 mile) journey for the first time in human history.

With Arctic ice melting at an unprecedented rate, previously inaccessible waters are opening up, creating the potential for their planned 5,500 km (3,500 mile) journey for the first time in human history.

Maybe the fact that the expedition is equipped with two boats specially built to sail through ice, and with all the latest technology, might have something to do with it, as the Pen Hadow website reveals:

Our two 50 foot yachts, Bagheera and Snow Dragon II, are specially built to sail in waters with sea ice, and the four skippers, two on each boat, are exceptionally experienced in polar seas, and with navigation and safety procedures in sea ice.

“Nigel” is actually an Icelandic name, related to the Irish “Niall,” and meaning “Champion.” I think it is appropriate to someone who goes off to freeze to death, extremely stupidly. Rather him than me.

I suspect that the success or failure of this expedition will depend largely on the activity of the Gakkel Ridge (and others) lying beneath the Arctic ice sheet. It has been recently found that the Earth’s crust here is thin and there is a lot of thermal venting taking place although it is only spreading very slowly.
If you google “Gakkel Ridge activity” there is much of interest here.
How much influence this has on the Arctic Ice Sheet is still just conjecture; but could explain why there are water pools found dotted around. (Forgotten what they called).

Just as the recent posting about 91 volcanoes under Antarctica, do you think it could affect the ice?

A little smarter was Commander William R. Anderson, USN who squeezed the USS Nautilus UNDER the North Pole on August 3, 1958, at 11:15 pm. They headed south in search of a” polynya” On August 5, they came under a large patch of open water, surfaced and sent the “Nautius 90 North” message.

No doubt equipped with huge diesel engines and plenty of fuel like last year’s polar circumnavigators. This trip is much more impressive, real sailing and a rifle for the polar bears that can be see stalking them as they ghost along in light airs looking for open water.

Oh well, I just wasted 15 minutes of my life going to their web-site. The whole thing is a complete nothing. They are merely going for a little sail round Alaska, in the last days of the Northern summer. Big f*ing deal. I doubt if their keel will even make it onto the Arctic Ocean.

This was the item I read over the weekend. So the original aim was to sail over the open water at the North Pole. Now it’s to go as close as possible to the North Pole. Considering their late start from Nome, very likely to not get through NW Passage.

“ultimately” – – – Hadrow is ultimately a pawn of the elite’s movement toward one world government and the redistribution of wealth. If you are reading such things as blogs on the internet, keep your hand over your wallet.

Everyone’s being very negative! They are following in the footsteps of many explorers of dangerous places. Noone has made them go and I assume the finances were voluntarily donated. What is the point of sneering at his names? Trivial class issues should really be dead and gone by now surely. There are certainly big issues with wealthy people who use their power to manipulate the world to their own financial advantage:. If Hadow writes a book and earns some money from it thats not a bad thing, every explorer does it. Good Luck to him. If he wanted to be famous he could have taken his card tricks to a TV talent show.

there was an old daft un called awfully dim but nice,
tried to sail to the middle of de boreal polar cap,
alas, the silly boy! he got himself all stuck up in the ice!

they told him “don’t dare go up there when the days grow thin!”
he replied “oi’ve done it before – you’ll see!” raised his nose in the air and orf he went,
should have taken a breaker, when them poley bears there came by a sniffin’.

“the ice is going, going!” making an appeal he did confide,
no worries for poley bears – ice they see it all the time and just don’t care,
and yer sees the bears were so glad, that boy did make invite and a hearty feast at least he did provide.

At the moment of writing the extent of Arctic sea ice is just over 7 million square kilometers, on the way down to about 5.5 million square kilometers at minimum extent coming end September. North of Alaska the sea ice starts at about 76N, that is 1500 kilometer from the North Pole. The gentleman thinks he can sail to the pole itself. He will be sorely disappointed.

NH sea-ice extent is about 6 million square kms. and sea-ice volume about 5 thousand cubic kms. Both are,for this time of year, roughly “the new normals,” ( i.e.those levels established about a decade ago).

Greenland ice-cap experienced a lot of extra snow cover early in the year. An average melt season is now about finished; so the overall effect is a considerable growth to the ice sheet. ( “Just weather” – between you, me and the gate-post.)

Actual daily updates (gospel or estimates, as you like) from satellites and aircraft are, of course, instantly available with barely any delay from various sources such as DMI So why anybody thinks it innovative to go there in a boat…

This replica Viking longship made it to Newfoundland, stirring stuff, serious sailing. The original voyages had a 50% failure (fatal) rate, hence the modern survival gear worn by the crew of the replica..

Om one of the reports on the BBC News channel the announce said they were going to try to reach the geographic north pole, while pointing to a map with the geomagnetic north pole labelled on it, which obviously is in a completely different place, much further south.
Actually the geomagnetic pole is even in a different place to the magnetic pole.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Magnetic_Pole
It isn’t clear to me whether some people at the BBC even know the difference,

Commander Anderson, in his book “Nautilus 90 North” (mentioned above) about going under the North Pole, devotes considerable time to the issues with the compass and having to reset it every so often in order to reach the geographic North Pole. Also, the setting changes when leaving to get them back to the magnetic and figuring out where they were. They did it superbly.

I read this 1959 book while still at Suncrest-Flatts Junior High School. I doubt the folks at BBC or other of the fake news community could comprehend it.

When I sent these photos to a very, very eminent producer of wild life documentaries, and great believer in anthropogenic global warming; he replied ânobody ever said that there had not been previous periods when the ice diminished to virtually nothing at the north poleâ to which I replied âI have not heard global warming believers say that there has eitherâ

2009 and now 2017 – this fatuous stunt will be tried from time to time – quite likely financed by the BBC in its unending quest for alarmist ‘evidence’ for its global warming mythology. After all, for them, fraudsters and mountebanks at The Royal Society, not to mention almost the whole of the leftist academia and MSM, if the evidence doesn’t exist, go out and make sure that it does by whatever means that are expedient.

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